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Book A Pattern of Deceit

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  • Author : Richard D. Thielmann
  • Publisher : Infinity Publishing
  • Release : 2010-09-03
  • ISBN : 0741491451
  • Pages : 392 pages

Download or read book A Pattern of Deceit written by Richard D. Thielmann and published by Infinity Publishing. This book was released on 2010-09-03 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Private investigator Butch Greiner tries to help Sheriff's Detective Larry Quinn find a murderer who has left no apparent clues. This killing is just part of the complex impact that auto parts manufacturer DME Corporation has on the small lakeside town of

Book PATTERN OF DECEIT

Download or read book PATTERN OF DECEIT written by Emma Darcy and published by Harlequin / SB Creative. This book was released on 2015-09-26 with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Pattern of Deceit

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  • Author : Emma DARCY
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1989
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : pages

Download or read book Pattern of Deceit written by Emma DARCY and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Pattern of Deceit

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  • Author :
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1981*
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 128 pages

Download or read book Pattern of Deceit written by and published by . This book was released on 1981* with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Deceit and Self Deception

Download or read book Deceit and Self Deception written by Robert Trivers and published by Penguin Books. This book was released on 2014-01-30 with total page 399 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We lie to ourselves every day: about how well we drive, how much we're enjoying ourselves - even how good looking we are. In this ground-breaking book, Robert Trivers examines not only how we self-deceive, but also why, taking fascinating examples from aviation disasters, con artists, sexual betrayals and conflicts within families. Revealing, provocative and witty, Deceit and Self-Deception is one of the most vital books written this century, and will make you rethink everything that you think you know. 'Original and important . . . remarkable, thick with ideas.' Financial Times 'One of the great thinkers in the history of Western thought.' Steven Pinker 'A swift tour of links between deception and evolutionary progress . . . fascinating.' Economist 'I devoured it from cover to cover . . . exhilarating.' Guardian 'A powerful book . . . essential for anyone who wants to try to counter their own unconscious biases.' Independent

Book Cognitive Space and Patterns of Deceit in La Fontaine s Contes

Download or read book Cognitive Space and Patterns of Deceit in La Fontaine s Contes written by Catherine M. Grisé and published by Rookwood Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Pattern of Deceit

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  • Author : Leigh Duncan
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2016-09-02
  • ISBN : 9781944258078
  • Pages : pages

Download or read book Pattern of Deceit written by Leigh Duncan and published by . This book was released on 2016-09-02 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Finding her long-lost father was the easy part. Escaping his harsh cult will require more strength and courage than she possesses.

Book Gods of Deception

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  • Author : David Adams Cleveland
  • Publisher : Greenleaf Book Group
  • Release : 2022-05-17
  • ISBN : 1626349193
  • Pages : 1235 pages

Download or read book Gods of Deception written by David Adams Cleveland and published by Greenleaf Book Group. This book was released on 2022-05-17 with total page 1235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At age ninety-five, Judge Edward Dimock, patriarch of his family and the man who defended accused Soviet spy Alger Hiss in the famous 1950 Cold War “trial of the century,” is writing his memoir at his fabled Catskill retreat, Hermitage, with its glorious Italian Renaissance ceiling. Judge Dimock is consumed with doubts about the troubling secrets he’s kept to himself for over fifty years—secrets that might change both American history and the lives of his entire family. Was his client guilty of spying for Stalin or not? And if guilty, did Hiss’s crimes go far beyond his perjury conviction—a verdict that divided the country for a generation? ​Dimock enlists his grandson, George Altmann, a brilliant Princeton astrophysicist, in the quest for truth. Reluctantly, George finds himself drawn into the web of deceit that has ravaged his family, his curiosity sparked by a string of clues found in the Judge’s unpublished memoir and in nine pencil sketches of accused Soviet agents pinned to an old corkboard in his grandfather’s abandoned office. Even more dismaying, the drawings are by George’s paternal grandfather and namesake, a once-famous painter who covered the Hiss trial as a courtroom artist for the Herald Tribune, only to die in uncertain circumstances in a fall from Woodstock’s Fishkill Bridge on Christmas Eve 1949. Many of the suspected spies also died from ambiguous falls (a KGB specialty) or disappeared behind the Iron Curtain—and were conveniently unable to testify in the Hiss trial. George begins to realize the immensity of what is at stake: deceptive entanglements that will indeed alter the accepted history of the Cold War—and how he understands his own unhappy Woodstock childhood, growing up in the shadow of a rumored suicide and the infidelities of an alcoholic father, a roadie with The Band. In Gods of Deception, acclaimed novelist David Adams Cleveland has created a multiverse all its own: a thrilling tale of espionage, a family saga, a stirring love story, and a meditation on time and memory, astrophysics and art, taking the reader on an unforgettable journey into the troubled human heart as well as the past—a past that is ever present, where the gods of deception await our distant call.

Book Dragons of Deceit

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  • Author : Margaret Weis
  • Publisher : Random House Worlds
  • Release : 2022-08-02
  • ISBN : 198481933X
  • Pages : 440 pages

Download or read book Dragons of Deceit written by Margaret Weis and published by Random House Worlds. This book was released on 2022-08-02 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman return to the unforgettable world of the New York Times bestselling Dragonlance series as a new heroine—desperate to restore her beloved father to life—sets off on a quest to change time. “I love Dragonlance and I love Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman. Plain and simple. Their books are my favorite fantasy series of all time.”—Joe Manganiello Destina Rosethorn—as her name implies—believes herself to be a favored child of destiny. But when her father dies in the War of the Lance, she watches her carefully constructed world come crashing down. She loses not only her beloved father but also the legacy he has left her: the family lands and castle. To save her father, she hatches a bold plan—to go back in time and prevent his death. First, she has to secure the Device of Time Journeying, last known to be in the possession of the spirited kender Tasslehoff Burrfoot. But to change time, she’ll need another magical artifact—the most powerful and dangerous artifact ever created. Destina’s quest takes her from the dwarven kingdom of Thorbardin to the town of Solace and beyond, setting in motion a chain of disastrous events that threaten to divert the course of the River of Time, alter the past, and forever change the future.

Book Lying and Deception in Everyday Life

Download or read book Lying and Deception in Everyday Life written by Michael Lewis and published by Guilford Press. This book was released on 1993-02-05 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "I speak the truth, not so much as I would, but as much as I dare...."-- Montaigne "All cruel people describe themselves as paragons of frankness.'" -- Tennessee Williams Truth and deception--like good and evil--have long been viewed as diametrically opposed and unreconcilable. Yet, few people can honestly claim they never lie. In fact, deception is practiced habitually in day-to-day life--from the polite compliment that doesn't accurately relay one's true feelings, to self-deception about one's own motivations. What fuels the need for people to intricately construct lies and illusions about their own lives? If deceptions are unconscious, does it mean that we are not responsible for their consequences? Why does self-deception or the need for illusion make us feel uncomfortable? Taking into account the sheer ubiquity and ordinariness of deception, this interdisciplinary work moves away from the cut-and-dried notion of duplicity as evil and illuminates the ways in which deception can also be understood as a adaptive response to the demands of living with others. The book articulates the boundaries between unethical and adaptive deception demonstrating how some lies serve socially approved goals, while others provoke distrust and condemnation. Throughout, the volume focuses on the range of emotions--from feelings of shame, fear, or envy, to those of concern and compassion--that motivate our desire to deceive ourselves and others. Providing an interdisciplinary exploration of the widespread phenomenon of lying and deception, this volume promotes a more fully integrated understanding of how people function in their everyday lives. Case illustrations, humor and wit, concrete examples, and even a mock television sitcom script bring the ideas to life for clinical practitioners, behavioral scientists, and philosophers, and for students in these realms.

Book A Web of Deceit

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  • Author : Gary D. McGugan
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2021-02-08
  • ISBN : 9781999565671
  • Pages : 298 pages

Download or read book A Web of Deceit written by Gary D. McGugan and published by . This book was released on 2021-02-08 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fate, misfortune and opportunity entangle three rivals in a quick-paced suspense thriller. CEO Suzanne Simpson fends off accusations of corporate money laundering on two continents as a global pandemic wreaks havoc on Multima Supermarkets. Fugitive Howard Knight flees from the Caribbean to Asia, trying desperately to elude both an Interpol Red Notice and a dangerous criminal outfit called The Organization. Fidelia Morales stakes her role as head of a powerful criminal element on an outrageous cyber scheme to steal millions from corporations around the globe.

Book Web of Deceit

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  • Author : Barry Lando
  • Publisher : Anchor Canada
  • Release : 2010-08-27
  • ISBN : 0385672888
  • Pages : 386 pages

Download or read book Web of Deceit written by Barry Lando and published by Anchor Canada. This book was released on 2010-08-27 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An investigative history of Western complicity in Saddam Hussein’s crimes reveals the story his trial never will. In February 1991, the Shia of southern Iraq rose against Saddam Hussein. Barry M. Lando, a former investigative producer for 60 Minutes, argues compellingly that this ill-fated uprising represents one instance among many of Western complicity in Saddam Hussein’s crimes against humanity. The Shia were responding to the call for rebellion from President George H.W. Bush that was broadcast repeatedly across Iraq by clandestine CIA stations. But, just as the revolution was on the brink of success, the United States and its allies turned their backs. In the end, tens of thousands were massacred. Because of restrictions imposed by the Special Tribunal prosecuting Saddam Hussein, the extensive role of the U.S. and its allies in his crimes will never be explored at his trial. But as Web of Deceit demonstrates, the nations that now denounce Saddam most prominently secretly backed the dictator from his rise to power in the 1960s and ‘70s to his offensives in Iran and, despite warnings, took no action to stop his invasion of Kuwait. They also turned their backs when he used chemical weapons against the Iraqi people and persisted in international sanctions long after they had proved ineffective and, for hundreds of thousands of Iraqi civilians, lethal. Web of Deceit draws on a wide range of journalism and scholarship to present a complete picture of what really happened in Iraq under Saddam, detailing – for the first time – the complicity of the West in its full and alarming extent.

Book The Folly of Fools

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  • Author : Robert Trivers
  • Publisher : Basic Books (AZ)
  • Release : 2011-10-25
  • ISBN : 0465027555
  • Pages : 418 pages

Download or read book The Folly of Fools written by Robert Trivers and published by Basic Books (AZ). This book was released on 2011-10-25 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores the author's theorized evolutionary basis for self-deception, which he says is tied to group conflict, courtship, neurophysiology, and immunology, but can be negated by awareness of it and its results.

Book Semiotics of Deceit

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  • Author : Donald Maddox
  • Publisher : Bucknell University Press
  • Release : 1984
  • ISBN : 9780838750407
  • Pages : 232 pages

Download or read book Semiotics of Deceit written by Donald Maddox and published by Bucknell University Press. This book was released on 1984 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Deceit was a salient theme in medieval French drama, and nowhere was it developed to a higher degree than in the fifteenth-century comic masterpiece Maistre Pierre Pathelin, whose deceptive strategies have been praised for centuries for their astonishing variety and amazing human insight. This volume includes Alan Knight's admirably lucid and engaging translation of the drama, while the body of the work is devoted to Donald Maddox's critical analysis of it.

Book Patterns of Deceit

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  • Author : Thomas Sanford
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2010-06
  • ISBN : 9781452025971
  • Pages : 192 pages

Download or read book Patterns of Deceit written by Thomas Sanford and published by . This book was released on 2010-06 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Summerston Museum of Folk Art is a remarkable resource. Collectors find a world-renown two-century collection, researchers a comprehensive library, and those in need of conservation assistance a state-of-the-art laboratory - all staffed with dedicated curators and conservationists. Those seeking nature's beauty find an English-style country garden to refresh the soul. But even the Garden of Eden had its serpent, and Summerston would soon be no different.

Book Summary of Ann Rule s A Rose for Her Grave

Download or read book Summary of Ann Rule s A Rose for Her Grave written by Milkyway Media and published by Milkyway Media. This book was released on 2024-01-28 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Get the Summary of Ann Rule's A Rose for Her Grave in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. "A Rose for Her Grave" chronicles the chilling true story of Randy Roth, a man whose manipulative and controlling nature led to the suffering and death of women in his life, echoing the Bluebeard legend. Janis Miranda, a single mother, fell for Randy's charms and married him, despite friends' warnings. As their marriage progressed, Janis noticed Randy's emotional withdrawal and infidelity, which she confided to her friend Louise Mitchell...

Book California  Court of Appeal  1st Appellate District   Records and Briefs

Download or read book California Court of Appeal 1st Appellate District Records and Briefs written by California (State). and published by . This book was released on with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: